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availability of a common referent expressed in at least one known

language. Another key ingredient for deciphering hieroglyphs was the

discovery by Champollion of the fact that some hieroglyphs represented

both sounds and meanings. That is, they acted as both phonograms (rep-

resenting sounds) and logograms (representing an idea or information),

unlike the Egyptologists before him who thought hieroglyphs were either

pure logograms or phonograms. In other words, Egyptian hieroglyphs

comprise three distinct groups of signs as shown in Table 4.9.

The essential contribution that Champollion made to decoding

Egyptian hieroglyphs was his demonstration that they contained both

Figure 4.7 (a) The Rosetta Stone carrying known texts (written in Demotic and Greek)

and an unknown text (written in Egyptian hieroglyphs), all signifying the same Decree of

Memphis. (b) The human brain contains an unknown language (DNA-based cell language

or cellese) and a known one (human language or humanese), both sharing the same set of

semiotic principles. Just as Rosetta Stone contained two scripts, one known and the other

unknown, so it is postulated that the human brain contains a known script (written in

humanese) and unknown script written in cellese. It is further postulated that these two

kinds of scripts share a common set of physical laws and evolutionary rules, thereby exhib-

iting an isomorphism [19–23]. It is because of this isomorphism between the two kinds of

languages that we can hope to infer the semantics of the cell-language texts (see the left-

hand box in (b)) by comparing them with associated human linguistic texts (see the right-

hand box in (b)). The key elements of this comparison are summarized in Table 4.11.

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